Weeds: "The Love Circle Overlap"Review

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Less weed, more Viagra.

By Laura Burrows

It's common knowledge to all suburban drug dealers that when headaches erupt, children mature and mermaids appear it's time to start smoking something a bit more salient than the standard stash. So that's exactly what Nancy did, unfortunately, she and boyfriend Esteban had a bit too much fun in the sun with a Mexican hallucinogen and the whole episode went to pot. Literally.

Nancy's mind trip messed with the whole flow of the show and each of the other characters was left to fend for themselves. So if Nancy turns to drugs, what is left for everyone else? Why sex of course!

This was not the standard, run-of-the-mill oral sex on a cheese counter kind of episode; it was an all out orgy of adolescent proportions. Shane finally entered into the world of sex (with other people), but he didn't just grope a girl in the back of the gymnasium, no he went balls out with a pair of tween Goths. Silas is still diddling the MILF, but in new and more sinister ways as she is finally coming to grips with the fact that she is a child molester. And then there is Doug: Doug finally caught the MerMex and they have begun to enjoy some water-tight fun. It's the battle of the bulge and as long as Nancy is busy with the peyote man, it looks like we're stuck with an endless love circle overlap.

The only people not getting any on this show were poor Celia and the baby blue prom queen that mysteriously emerged from the drug tunnel. There will be some kind of crazy explanation for the latter in episodes to come, but as for Celia, there were still some rather obvious sexual undertones: First of all, she was handcuffed to a bed with her ex-husband standing over her whipping her with a list of indiscretions. This was technically an intervention, but it's not hard to see the underlying motivation: we get it, sex sells, but so does weed so get back to that!

Just as a side note, it was nice to see that Dean was fully recovered from his motorcycle accident that saw him in a full body cast just eight episodes ago. No wonder everybody is having sex, if you had super-human healing, wouldn't you?